From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <W0Wje.14073$dS3.1576654@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 15 May 2005 07:51:56 GMT and ending at
22 May 2005 06:51:36 GMT.
Notes
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- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\s)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating is the ratio of the original content volume
to the total body volume.
- Please send all comments to Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
Totals
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Posters: 132
Articles: 359 (110 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 64
Volume generated: 908.9 kb
- headers: 428.9 kb (6,609 lines)
- bodies: 462.7 kb (12,986 lines)
- original: 305.4 kb (9,011 lines)
- signatures: 16.9 kb (363 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.660
Averages
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Posts per poster: 2.7
median: 1.0 post
mode: 1 post - 74 posters
s: 3.7 posts
Posts per thread: 5.6
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 26 threads
s: 8.7 posts
Message size: 2592.4 bytes
- header: 1223.5 bytes (18.4 lines)
- body: 1319.8 bytes (36.2 lines)
- original: 871.0 bytes (25.1 lines)
- signature: 48.2 bytes (1.0 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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25 77.2 ( 25.4/ 47.6/ 23.2) Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
15 42.2 ( 14.3/ 24.4/ 15.6) ···@gnu.org
11 38.6 ( 14.3/ 24.3/ 15.7) ···············@hotmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
11 26.8 ( 11.7/ 14.4/ 7.7) Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
11 17.9 ( 13.8/ 4.1/ 2.5) "fireblade" <········@YAHOO.COM>
11 22.7 ( 12.5/ 10.2/ 8.4) Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
10 42.4 ( 16.2/ 26.2/ 16.9) "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
9 24.5 ( 9.6/ 14.9/ 13.2) Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
8 23.8 ( 9.5/ 14.3/ 10.5) Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
8 18.3 ( 10.0/ 8.3/ 6.2) "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
These posters accounted for 33.1% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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77.2 ( 25.4/ 47.6/ 23.2) 25 Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
42.4 ( 16.2/ 26.2/ 16.9) 10 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
42.2 ( 14.3/ 24.4/ 15.6) 15 ···@gnu.org
38.6 ( 14.3/ 24.3/ 15.7) 11 ···············@hotmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
26.8 ( 11.7/ 14.4/ 7.7) 11 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
24.5 ( 9.6/ 14.9/ 13.2) 9 Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
23.8 ( 9.5/ 14.3/ 10.5) 8 Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
22.7 ( 12.5/ 10.2/ 8.4) 11 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
20.3 ( 10.9/ 8.5/ 3.4) 7 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
18.3 ( 10.0/ 8.3/ 6.2) 8 "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
These posters accounted for 37.1% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.886 ( 13.2 / 14.9) 9 Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
0.822 ( 8.4 / 10.2) 11 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
0.768 ( 5.4 / 7.0) 6 "=?iso-8859-1?q?F=F6rster_vom_Silberwald?=" <··········@hotmail.com>
0.748 ( 6.2 / 8.3) 8 "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
0.737 ( 10.5 / 14.3) 8 Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
0.726 ( 3.8 / 5.2) 6 Nicolas Neuss <·······@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
0.720 ( 3.6 / 5.0) 5 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.687 ( 5.7 / 8.3) 5 Winston Smith <·····@yahoo.com>
0.646 ( 15.7 / 24.3) 11 ···············@hotmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
0.644 ( 16.9 / 26.2) 10 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.638 ( 15.6 / 24.4) 15 ···@gnu.org
0.637 ( 6.4 / 10.1) 7 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
0.617 ( 2.5 / 4.1) 11 "fireblade" <········@YAHOO.COM>
0.531 ( 7.7 / 14.4) 11 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
0.487 ( 23.2 / 47.6) 25 Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
0.464 ( 1.1 / 2.4) 7 "jonathon" <···········@bigfoot.com>
0.414 ( 1.1 / 2.7) 6 ········@agharta.de
0.394 ( 3.4 / 8.5) 7 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.380 ( 3.2 / 8.5) 5 Jeffrey Cunningham <·······@cunningham.net>
0.269 ( 2.0 / 7.3) 6 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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45 I dream of a LISP that...
43 Breaking numbers
28 Invariant with DIGIT-CHAR-P and the reader.
19 explaining your job (Lisp humor)
18 Deploying Common Lisp applications
15 S-expression grammar?
13 a Dijkstra quote (what lang?)
11 breaking numbers thread , new tasks
11 Free software vs. commercial software Was: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
11 Please help to understand closures
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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127.7 ( 73.2/ 52.4/ 33.1) 45 I dream of a LISP that...
99.4 ( 30.7/ 65.2/ 38.8) 28 Invariant with DIGIT-CHAR-P and the reader.
86.8 ( 50.5/ 35.5/ 25.0) 43 Breaking numbers
51.3 ( 19.3/ 31.9/ 21.7) 11 Free software vs. commercial software Was: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
37.1 ( 23.4/ 12.7/ 8.1) 18 Deploying Common Lisp applications
35.9 ( 10.7/ 24.9/ 9.1) 9 How can this macro be improved?
32.9 ( 14.7/ 17.5/ 14.5) 15 S-expression grammar?
30.5 ( 20.1/ 10.1/ 4.7) 19 explaining your job (Lisp humor)
26.1 ( 15.6/ 10.1/ 5.2) 13 a Dijkstra quote (what lang?)
26.1 ( 11.4/ 13.6/ 8.2) 11 Please help to understand closures
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.890 ( 6.6/ 7.4) 11 breaking numbers thread , new tasks
0.829 ( 10.7/ 12.9) 5 [ANN] ECL 0.9f released
0.828 ( 14.5/ 17.5) 15 S-expression grammar?
0.781 ( 0.5/ 0.7) 3 Mathematical Interval
0.705 ( 25.0/ 35.5) 43 Breaking numbers
0.702 ( 6.5/ 9.3) 6 Range function
0.693 ( 8.5/ 12.3) 10 Breaking numbers (partial optimal solution)
0.690 ( 3.3/ 4.8) 6 macros, in common lisp and before.
0.690 ( 1.4/ 2.1) 3 (pathname (merge-pathnames ...))
0.683 ( 2.7/ 3.9) 4 tree functions daily exercise
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.620 ( 4.4 / 7.1) 4 the '+' operator for addition of 2 vectors?
0.607 ( 8.2 / 13.6) 11 Please help to understand closures
0.595 ( 38.8 / 65.2) 28 Invariant with DIGIT-CHAR-P and the reader.
0.585 ( 1.5 / 2.5) 4 how is a generic function accessed in compiled lisp code?
0.544 ( 1.6 / 3.0) 4 clisp, cygwin, a2ps, and ext:run-program
0.519 ( 5.0 / 9.5) 6 Installing Portable AllegroServe (clisp 2.33 + win xp)
0.519 ( 5.2 / 10.1) 13 a Dijkstra quote (what lang?)
0.462 ( 4.7 / 10.1) 19 explaining your job (Lisp humor)
0.456 ( 4.5 / 10.0) 8 Replaceable classes?
0.365 ( 9.1 / 24.9) 9 How can this macro be improved?
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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23 comp.lang.functional
23 comp.lang.scheme
8 comp.lang.python
8 comp.lang.perl.misc
1 comp.graphics.api.opengl
1 comp.databases.berkeley-db
1 no.it.programmering.lisp
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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22 "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
8 Peter Hansen <·····@engcorp.com>
6 Joachim Durchholz <··@durchholz.org>
6 ········@dformosa.zeta.org.au
2 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
2 "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····················@mycompanyname.com>
2 "Jerzy Karczmarczuk" <·······@info.unicaen.fr>
2 Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
2 Juliusz Chroboczek <···@pps.jussieu.fr>
2 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>